Allie Coyne reports: The not-for-profit health fund that services Commonwealth Bank staff is warning customers not to click on dodgy emails after attackers stole customer data from one of its third-party partners. CBHS was established in 1951 by the Commonwealth Bank as a health fund for the bank’s staff. It later separated from CBA and opened up its…
Computer fraud charge against woman involves ID theft of VA workers
Rachel Weiner reports: An employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs stole his co-workers’ confidential information and shared it with a friend who used it to obtain a credit card and access a bank account — ultimately making charges at a Diesel clothing store and with a plastic surgeon, authorities said. The allegation comes from…
University of Central Florida police trace credit card fraud to restaurant malware
Gabrielle Russon reports: UCF police have determined that a vendor whose restaurants had malware on its computers is the potential root of the spike in campus credit card fraud cases last month. The issue was found with AD Food Services, which operates Asian Chao, Huey Magoo’s and the Corner Café in the Student Union, the…
Modern Business Solutions’ leaky bucket provided a field day for downloaders
Update of Oct. 18: a vendor on the dark web has seemingly put the database up for sale for $200. The listing says: 58,848,308 ModBSolutions.com no passwords Business 2016-10 contains field “email”,”gender”,”zip,”state”,”city”,”address”,”last_name”,”first_name”,”updatedate”,”job” Note that MBS never responded to my courtesy notification, never responded to a request for a statement as to what they were doing in…
OH: District officials: Data breach affected only a few students
Nate Ellis reports: Tech-savvy Upper Arlington High School students recently used their know-how and computers issued by the district to access privileged information of their peers, according to school officials. District officials informed parents via email Oct. 5 that “some students” had discovered a way to use their district-issued laptop computers to access an active…
Turkey blocks Google, Microsoft and Dropbox services to ‘suppress’ mass email leaks
Jason Murdock reports: In an attempt to curb the spread of leaked emails from a high-ranking government official, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to a slew of well-known technology and cloud services in the country, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive. According to Turkey Blocks, a web monitoring organisation that reported the outages, the nationwide…